If Manteca doesn't close a deal with one of the two waterpark resort operators that have been negotiating to locate on municipal land west of Costco by year's end, City Manager Tim Ogden said the city will launch a national search.

SANTA ROSA (AP) - The flames that raced across California wine country left little more than smoldering ashes and eye-stinging smoke in their wake. House after house is gone, with only brick chimneys and charred laundry machines to mark sites that were once family homes.

Investors buying bonds such as the $63 million Manteca Unified is preparing to sell for improvements at 11 campuses rely on the advice of bond underwriters to determine the soundness of a school district.

Fr. Jairo Ramirez, a popular priest among the parishioners of the Hispanic community of St. Anthony's Church in Manteca collapsed and died Saturday night while attending a Hispanic dinner dance at Modesto's St. Joseph's Catholic Church.